Nina Shorina

Directing

Nina Shorina

Born 1943-03-10 · Moscow, RSFSR [now Russia]

Acting credits

Marine Hunter poster
10.0

The action takes place during the Second World War in the battle zone over the Black Sea coast. Soviet sailors track down an enemy submarine. Meanwhile, the commander of the Sea Hunter, along with one of the sailors, is not returning from intelligence. Young patriots Katya and Lida report to the boat about the signal of unknown friends who noticed a submarine. Thanks to this, Soviet sailors drown an enemy boat, and the brave reconnaissance Katya, who knows the mountain paths of the coast well, discovers a Sea Hunter commander and a seriously wounded sailor in one of the caves ..

Marine Hunter

1954

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story poster
5.0

Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

2021

No artwork available
NR

In the 1920s, a young Komsomol member is elected as a shepherd in a farmstead on the Don River. After the kulaks kill the chairman of the executive committee in revenge, the shepherd writes to a newspaper about it.

The Shepherd

1958

Ask Your Heart poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ask Your Heart

1965

The First Date poster
5.6

Alexey and Valentina met in the tourist camp on Seliger, and after two weeks they celebrated their wedding. Returning to the family, the young couple faced the first difficulties. Both parents didn't like the willfulness of the young - and there were problems with housing. They started a constant quarrels. The young soon agreed that their wedding was premature ...

The First Date

1960

Lights on the River poster
8.5

A story about a group of children spending their summer vacation in the village.

Lights on the River

1953

Translations from the East poster
NR

The whole film has three, (but in reality, two main) characters. Most of the action takes place in a country house, home to the pair. She - a Japanese translator, he - a man without a definite occupation, lover of the texts of Nietzsche (which he reads fluently in its original language) and St. Augustine (who is quoted in Latin). They are Moscow intelligentsia who have emigrating to their own cultural space. A couple so different that it is difficult to understand what keeps them together. It seems they live together, not because of, but rather in spite of everything that is happening (or rather, not happening) between them.

Translations from the East

1999

But What If This Is Love? poster
5.4

High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.

But What If This Is Love?

1961

A Head on One's Shoulders poster
NR

After finishing school in their native village, Tolyasha (Igor Pushkarev) and Valya take exams to enter the pedagogical institute, but both fail. They return to their Green Shores. Valya works on a poultry farm and soon becomes a famous poultry farmer, and Tolyasha works as a driver. After a series of misunderstandings, their personal relationships improve...

A Head on One's Shoulders

1961

The Old House poster
8.0

About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...

The Old House

1970

Alter Ego poster
6.0

Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.

Alter Ego

1989

Behind the camera

Poodle poster
7.0

The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring.

Poodle

1985

Dream poster
5.9

Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.

Dream

1988

Dream poster
5.9

Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.

Dream

1988

The Door poster
5.9

The residents of a building have found novel ways to enter and exit as their front door is broken. However, once the door is repaired they continue to avoid the door.

The Door

1986

About Buka poster
NR

"About Buka" by animator Nina Shorina, famous for "The Door". In Russian, no subtitles.

About Buka

1984

The Room of Laughter poster
7.5

The system of curve mirrors ugly deforming human features. We laugh, seeing the reflection, not noticing that the ugliness becomes our essence.

The Room of Laughter

1991

The Room of Laughter poster
7.5

The system of curve mirrors ugly deforming human features. We laugh, seeing the reflection, not noticing that the ugliness becomes our essence.

The Room of Laughter

1991

Nietzsche in Russia poster
NR

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.

Nietzsche in Russia

2008

Nietzsche in Russia poster
NR

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.

Nietzsche in Russia

2008

No artwork available
5.5

Tale about a dreamer who was very tall and disturbed everyone. But one day his music awakened a sense of beauty in the townspeople.

The Tale of the Very Tall Man

1983

Translations from the East poster
NR

The whole film has three, (but in reality, two main) characters. Most of the action takes place in a country house, home to the pair. She - a Japanese translator, he - a man without a definite occupation, lover of the texts of Nietzsche (which he reads fluently in its original language) and St. Augustine (who is quoted in Latin). They are Moscow intelligentsia who have emigrating to their own cultural space. A couple so different that it is difficult to understand what keeps them together. It seems they live together, not because of, but rather in spite of everything that is happening (or rather, not happening) between them.

Translations from the East

1999

Perfect Peri poster
NR

A statue of immense beauty has to come to life, and all wish to win her heart. But she is a peri, a Persian spirit of seraphic beauty, who should belong to none.

Perfect Peri

1982

The Draught poster
NR

Based on Anton Chekhov's short story "Ward No. 6" and other works.

The Draught

1993

The Draught poster
NR

Based on Anton Chekhov's short story "Ward No. 6" and other works.

The Draught

1993

No artwork available
NR

Based on a fairy tale by D. Nagishkin, written on the basis of Far Eastern folklore.

Unkind Lado

1981

Moomintroll and the Comet: The Way Home poster
5.4

Stop motion animation. Part 3 in a series. A comet is on a collision course with Earth. The oceans have dried up, and Moomintroll and friends need to make their way through raging sandstorms to get home to their parents.

Moomintroll and the Comet: The Way Home

1978

Moomintroll and the Comet poster
5.2

Stop-motion animation. A comet is hurtling towards Earth. Moomintroll and friends travel to a mountaintop observatory to investigate.

Moomintroll and the Comet

1978

A Window into the Soviet Union poster
NR

An educational cartoon designed to introduce foreign audiences to the cultural, technical, and scientific achievements of the Soviet Union.

A Window into the Soviet Union

1968

Alter Ego poster
6.0

Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.

Alter Ego

1989

Alter Ego poster
6.0

Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.

Alter Ego

1989

Take Your Time poster
NR

About a bear cub who wanted to become a circus star, but was late for the circus express train because he violated traffic rules.

Take Your Time

1972

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 4 poster
NR

Volume 4 (1986-1991): "Door", "Boy Is a Boy", "Liberated Don Quixote", "Martinko", "Big Underground Ball", "Cat and Clown", "Dream", "Kele", "Alter Ego", "Girlfriend", "Croak x Croak", "Cat and Company".

Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 4

2000